Best Thomas Stearns Eliot Sayings
- Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. Any
- Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. Biting
- Humankind can't stand too much reality. Humankind
- I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So… Come Upon
- No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice. Among
- My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. Death
- It is worth dying to find out what life is. Death
- The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. Fixed
- The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown. Clown
- Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One… Alone
- It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. Happen
- We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the… Beast
- There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate… Contending
- Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think… Alone
- Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity… Action
- You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me. Cat
- Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! Birthday
- When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his… Approval
- The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled. Conquered
- I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls… Book
- The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot. Inspirational
- Good poets borrow, great poets steal Borrow
- The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. Feeling
- A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Bridge
- You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value. Experience
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